Artificial Life Breakthrough

In the early 90's, a lot of studies went into artificial life. Are computer viruses alive? The J. Craig Venter Institute have created what appears to be the first Artificial Life entity that is truly alive and functional. Will the bad guys get ahold of this technology and use it to wage bio-warfare on humans like they did with computer viruses and worms on software and the Internet? Possibly. Time will tell if this technology manages to do a few useful things first.